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Lawrence Southwick
Abt 1600 - 1660 (~ 60 years)
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Name Lawrence Southwick [1] Birth Abt 1600 Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England 
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Gender Male Death 1660 Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA Person ID I6670 FelsingFam Last Modified 21 Dec 2024
Family Cassandra Burnell, b. Abt 1598 Marriage 5 Jan 1623/24 Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England Children + 1. John Southwick, b. 1620 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. Josiah Southwick, b. 20 Mar 1628/29, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England d. 1693 (Age 63 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Mary Southwick, b. 1632, New England, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. Provided Southwick, b. 1634, New England, USA d. 1640 (Age 6 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 5. Daniel Southwick, b. 1637, New England, USA d. 25 Dec 1718, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 81 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 6. Provided Southwick, b. Dec 1641, New England, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F2087 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Dec 2024
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Event Map 
Birth - Abt 1600 - Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England 
Marriage - 5 Jan 1623/24 - Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England 
Death - 1660 - Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - from wikipedia:
Lawrence and Cassandra were married 25 January 1623/4 at Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England.[1][2] Along with their four surviving children, John, Josiah, Mary, and Daniel, the Southwicks emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts, sometime between mid-1637 and early-1639 when they were admitted to the First Church in Salem.[3][4] Lawrence was one of the first glassmakers in America, and practiced his craft in the part of Salem now known as Peabody, which was the first glass manufacturing district in America.[5] Lawrence left the industry in 1642,[6] and turned his attention to animal husbandry at which he was very successful.[7]
Persecution as Quakers
In 1657 the Southwicks were put in jail for hosting two visiting Quaker preachers, John Copeland and Christopher Holder. Lawrence Southwick was found to be a member of the First Church of Salem and was released to be dealt with by the leaders of that church. Cassandra remained in jail for seven weeks and was fined forty shillings for possessing a paper written by their two visitors. The paper was considered heretical by Governor John Endicott and others.
In 1658 the Southwicks and their son Josiah were put in jail for twenty weeks for being Quakers.
In 1659, the two youngest of the Southwick's children, a daughter named Provided Southwick and a son named Daniel Southwick, were sentenced to be sold as slaves in the Barbadoes for unpaid fines - fines related to their being Quakers. The sentence was not carried out, however. The entire family went to Shelter Island, New York together.
In 1660 Lawrence and his wife Cassandra died within three days of each other on Shelter Island.
Legacy
A plaque in Southwick Hall at University of Massachusetts Lowell commemorates "Royal Southwick, Lowell's anti-slavery Quaker senator and manufacturer and a descendent of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick who were despoiled, imprisoned, starved, whipped, banished from," Massachusetts Bay Colony "and persecuted to death in the year 1660 for being Quakers."
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Sources - [S503] Essex Antiquarium, Vol 6 P151.
Essex Antiquarian vol 6 p151
- [S503] Essex Antiquarium, Vol 6 P151.
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